ITI URGES SENATE CLOTURE VOTE ON IMMIGRATION REFORM LEGISLATION
06.28.2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Calling
today’s expected vote on cloture a “critical moment” in the
Senate debate on comprehensive immigration reform, Information Technology Industry
Council (ITI) President Rhett Dawson today urged the Senate to vote for cloture
on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (S. 1348).
“A vote for cloture is a vote for innovation,” Dawson said. “America’s
leadership in the global innovation economy is at stake. The Senate has
come too far and worked too hard. The highly skilled labor problem has
reached a crisis level for the high tech industry and must be addressed now
through this legislation.”
ABOUT ITI
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) represents
the nation's leading high-tech companies and is widely recognized as the
tech industry's most effective lobbying organization. ITI helps member
companies achieve their policy objectives through building relationships
with Members of Congress, Administration officials, and foreign governments;
organizing industry-wide consensus on policy issues; and working to enact
tech-friendly government policies.
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ITI member companies include Accenture, Agilent Technologies, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Canon U.S.A., Cisco, ca, Corning, Dell, Eastman Kodak, eBay, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lenovo, Lexmark, Micron, Microsoft, Monster, National Semiconductor, NCR, Oracle, Panasonic, SAP, Sony Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Symbol Technologies, Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Unisys, Verisign and Vonage.
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